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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4386694, member: 1969"]
I don't really care what reactive captain hindsights on message boards think.    Have you read the Syracuse board after a loss or when we are losing?   Sanity goes right out the door.

97% of managers in modern day baseball would have made the move there.     Everyone except Dusty Baker who is still old school in sticking with veteran starters.

Once starters get third time through the lineup and get in trouble they get pulled very quickly, especially once the platoon switch comes into play.  You can't claim otherwise -- this is what managers have been doing based on "analytics" for a handful of years now.    At times it frustrates the hell out of me, because it is just one baserunner -- but in this case it was 3.

Gausman was at 95 pitches, 3rd time through the lineup, bases loaded, and lefties coming up.   He was no longer excelling at the time. Every manager does the move when the L/L split comes into play.

It's a 7 run lead.   If the argument is the bullpen sucks, then what are you going to do --- ride your starters for 140 pitches every game?     The Jays bullpen is not great, but you can't play scared with a 7 run lead.

Sometimes it doesn't work out - it doesn't make it poor managing.
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